>>>>>For anyone who's tired of telemarketer phone calls...
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.commongroundsolutions.net/BobandTom_TelemarketerNightmare.mp3
>>>>>
>>>>Haven't had the time yet, but there was a "anti-telemarketer-script" complete with
>>>>possible flowchart, aswers, evasion tactics and hints for "going back to track"
>>>>somewhere on a dutch server AFAIR.
>>>>
>>>
>>>The trouble is that in the end you achieve nothing. The guy at the other end of the phone is just a boiler-room slave who gets paid a fee for making calls. He could'nt care less whether you buy something or not. It's just another form of spam. Personally I (a) don't answer during dinner, which is a favourite time for them to call, and (b) just say "no thanks" and put down the phone the instant I hear it's a telemarketer.
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>>I don't answer the phone to any number I don't recognize, including 'private' etc. If they don't leave a message on my answering machine (which they usually don't), I figure it's because they think I don't really want to talk to them. If that's what they think then I bow to their superior knowledge in that area and agree.
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>I do pick up Private Caller calls because I know some people with unlisted numbers.

Wouldn't those people leave messages on an answering machine? That's my criterion for those calls where I can't tell who it is. If they won't leave a message, I'm not interested.